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Richard Anderson: President/CTO
Symmetric Computing is affordable supercomputing. Their large shared-memory Departmental Supercomputers are ideal for bioinformatics & life sciences, engineering models & simulation, financial analysis and earth science applications. Imagine a 1.5-TB shared memory, 192-core SMP supercomputer with 1.8 TFLOPS (peak theoretical) of power
dedicated to your department’s projects for under $100K.
They create large shared-memory, multi-core high performance computers by marrying state-of-the-art, off-the-shelf server hardware with their patent-pending Distributed Symmetric Multi-Processing extension to the Linux kernel. Other supercomputer vendors rely either on expensive proprietary hardware or depend on slower, much less efficient hypervisor implementations. Their implementation of Symmetric Multi-Processing is at the Operating System-level which is inherently faster than hypervisor implementations.
Symmetric Computing encourages all potential end-users and partners to remotely test their Departmental SuperComputers with their Free Trial Program. Trial participants from anywhere there is Internet can login and test their supercomputers here in Boston. They give free trial participants a userid and password that they can use to test any application(s) and data set(s) of their choosing. All they ask in return is for them to tell us the performance results they actually experience (for their constant improvement efforts), which they treat confidentially unless they state otherwise.
